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Shirley Sherrod: Let’s All Quit

I am sure that you have heard about the firing of USDA official, Shirley Sherrod, based on remarks she made at an NAACP event. Some blogger, who has made quite a name for himself, posted on YouTube portions of Ms Sherrod’s speech about her struggle to help white farmers when she considered how Black farmers [...]

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Check Out My Work

I’m the house therapist on BET’s College Hill Tuesday May 12 at 10 PM. If you’ve the show, you know that some intervention was necessary. Watch and let me know what you think. Can’t wait to get your take on my work.

Watch BET College Hill May 19

10 PM Eastern. I will be the therapist for the housemates. I believe all of the co-eds are of African descent, but the diversity between them gets in the way of their harmonious living. Check out my approach to the group’s problems. Let me know what you think. You might need me to work with [...]

Excerpts from Gettin’ Married

Getting married can be the most exciting time in your life. Every since you were a little girl, you played house imagining the kind of man you would marry; how many children you were going to have; and what kind of home you were going to make. I know you remember playing house—going through all [...]

New Products

I have two new books: Gettn’ Married: Get a Plan is for engaged couples who want to be strategic about planning how they will make their marriage work. $15 and Gettn’ Married 26 ‘to do’s’ Before You Say I Do is a book for couples who want to know exactly what marriage is about before [...]

Diversity the new Inclusion

Diversity refers to difference–any kind of difference. it bring to our attention the obvious and it poses a question. Inclusion, however, offers the answer–what we need to do about difference. We know all too well what is wrong and how we have mismanaged difference. Now, with inclusion, we find ourselves mending our relationships. We, with [...]

Until the Shrink Comes

I got a new book–”What to do until the shrink comes” will help youtake care of yourself the way a top notch therapist would. I give youthe inside on what a good therapist does and how to pick oneshould you decide you need one. Here’s a sneak peak: Things I Can do to Nourish My [...]

Love Under New Management

Wow, I just got back from an exciting evening of love making. Yes, I spent about 2 hourssharing with about 12 other women on how wemay rethink how we manage our love. We talked about not giving all our love away. Instead, we decided thatwe could and would keep some of our love to take [...]

“We tried, but we just couldn’t make it”

I believe these are the words from a popular song back in the 70′s. I know plenty of couples that could have written that song. Hell, I was a part of a couple that could have written that song. But you know what I discovered as we “tried to make it.” I learned that while [...]